Save Me the Waltz

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“Those girls,” people said, “think they can do anything and get away with it.”

have reached the point where I can only express the inarticulate, taste food without taste, smell whiffs of the past, read statistical books, and sleep in uncomfortable positions.”

She supposed she’d spend the rest of her life composing like that: fitting one thing into another and everything into the rules.

People can’t learn about their relations! As soon as they’re understood they’re over.

“So easy to be loved—so hard to love,”

He loved yellow flowers.

If you want to have things, you have got to take care of them.”

When man is no longer custodian of his vanities and convictions, he’s nothing at all, she thought

Why do we spend years using up our bodies to nurture our minds with experience and find our minds turning then to our exhausted bodies for solace?

Ask me something easy,”